Or would you prefer “Robopocalypse”?
Week 4’s theme for Super Art Fight was “killer cyber-bears”. So, in the interest of destroying yet another childhood memory:
You can also view the full size image here. There was actually a large discussion on whether the proper condensed term for the robot apocalypse is “robocalypse” or “robopocalypse”. I hold to the former as it eliminates an unnecessary syllable and time is of the essence when being pursued by killbots.
However, my opponents claim that the latter makes more sense since the other could be misinterpreted as an apocalypse instigated by someone named Rob. When spoken without the aid of capitalization, I could understand this. But one must remember that the word must be used in context; the context be swarmed by mechanized death-squads. I doubt any of them would be named Rob, nor would one have the time to ask before being melted by their laser eyes.
Now that that’s settled, I have to confess as to whether or not my references are once again too esoteric. The whole theme revolves around the Berenstain Bears, cleverly renamed. Brother Bear is based off the killer toy bear that attacked Akira. The argument could be made that the bear in question was really just a psychokinetic assault and not a robot per se, but that’s for scholars and nerds to wonder about. Sister is a Terminator, and thus can travel back in time but not forward to eliminate Sara Palin before she hunts her kind into extinction. Pa is the replicant Roy from Blade Runner. There actually WAS a replicant named Bear and I considered basing Pa off him just to get the name pun in there, but Roy is the most iconic figure of that movie and I’m already losing most of the audience by now. Lastly, Ma is a Dalek from Dr. Who. I was running out of killer robots when I remembered these nasty little exterminators and Ma’s polka-dot dress just fits perfectly on them.
So, there you go. Answers to the inevitable slack-jawed “Wha?” that inevitably escapes some of your mouths. I’m never quite sure how deeply detached I am from mainstream society when it comes to pop-culture references and, at times, feel the need to explain myself. I hope you have been enlightened, if not entertained.
